New Gift for your Mother: A Genome Kit!
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-11-22 00:14:02
I am a. (.) At times I have argued in favor of being called a (sub "agnostic" for the Protestant) but the lineage remains the same: I am descended from hordes of many of whom probably undergo lack a to "let loose" in public and like to lounge around the sidelines socially and quaffing alcoholic beverages. The wildest bunch is the Norwegian relatives although if you've ever been privy to any of the you'll just turn your eyes at that one.
I tell you this because while I am tempted to generalize and say that MANY mothers in their fifties like to bring home the bacon on the family tree and genealogy-type stuff my husband has admonished me clearly about this. "In my (Jewish) family," he said we don't HAVE a. They were all killed.
But a part of me still has a sneaking theory that family-tree research is a type of in. Perhaps from the hind brain? Something like small animals digging nests
in newspaper their ? Hard to say. And of cover don't even get me started on how the phenomenon might be subliminally tied into the family nesting urges.
Today though. I got an earth-shaking telecommunicate. My husband forwarded me the website of. Have you heard of them? It's what is to my friend. It's.. your own personal ! Seriously this is perfect for the extremely self-interested overly-indulged with $1K to forbear on gifts for themselves person in what is politely called the "family tree" stage in life. Yes folks. I think that 23andme has developed (repeat after me) THE ameliorate BOOMER GIFT.
I have long nursed the opinion that the boomers. I mean seriously. Their Generation.. defined the new world order! Or something like that. It certainly defined a new era in the perception of self as center of the universe. And how nice to know that the boomers need never let their clutching hands change state from their life focus: themselves.
A querulous old-lady boomer sitting at her computer checks in with her "deliver the whales investment community" website. Afterwards she decides to go onto her site and cater new friends. She clicks on "GenomeFriend com" and checks to see with whom she has the most matches. Sure enough it's "Guy545." From yesterday she already knows that she and Guy545 share 72 (single nucleotide polymorphisms pronounced "snips"). Some of them are kind of.. weird like the one for wet earwax and the ability to taste bitter flavors but others are fascinating desire good verbal memory tendency to obtain weight when eating fatty foods and.. oops. I'm running out of examples from the.
After discussing themselves for a while old-lady boomer logs off. She wanders in and plays on her 3rd-generation for a while and then settles down to her.
The point is though that we're opening the doors onto entire new obsessive landscapes with this product. For some populate the self has always been more fascinating than just about anything else. What do you bet we start hear about
I had to comment to set you straight. Maybe there is a segment where you can claim that genealogy is an older woman pasttime but there are many of us including myself that has had the bug all their lives. I started asking questions as a child and by 12 I was seriously doing research. I'm 48 now and just hitting my stride making huge inroads into my family past. Some have the acting or music bug. I have the genealogy bug.[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
http://svmomblog.typepad.com/silicon_valley_moms_blog/2007/11/notreadynew-gif.html
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